Tetracha pseudodistinguenda Horn, 1905

Pett, Brogan L., Wyer, Rufus & Smith, Paul, 2022, Contributions to the knowledge of tiger beetles in Paraguay, with new country and departmental records (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), Fragmenta entomologica 54 (1), pp. 163-170 : 168

Tetracha pseudodistinguenda Horn, 1905

Material examined (1 specimen): ITAPÚA “ Isla Yacyretá ” ( MNHNP-HX 588 ; leg. B. Barrios & E. Ibarra: 17 January 1993) .

Distribution. Sawada & Wiesner (2002) report specimens from Alto Paraguay, Boquerón, Central, Guairá and Presidente Hayes departments in Dry and Humid Chaco and Atlantic Forest ecoregions. The Itapúa specimen is from the Mesopotamian Grasslands ecoregion.

Comments. The specimen listed here was collected in open bushy grasslands with “Ñangapiri” ( Eugenia uniflora ).